Chrysler, GM say new Romney ad flat out wrong

We know that the Romney campaign disdains fact-checkers — they said so — but now their blatantly false ad about the auto industry that’s blanketing the Ohio airwaves is being called out by automaker executives.

The Romney ad says: “Under President Obama, GM cut 15,000 American jobs, but they are planning to double the number of cars built in China, which means 15,000 more jobs for China.”

Plus, the ad asserts: “Chrysler plans to start making Jeeps in, you guessed it, China.” Romney has repeated similar claims in campaign speeches.

It’s a shameless, last-week-of-the-campaign distortion designed to prick up ears in swing state Ohio, where 1 out of 8 jobs is connected to the auto industry. But it’s wrong. Or full of distortions according to factcheck.org.

But don’t take a fact-checkers word for it. Here’s what the CEO of Chrysler Sergio Marchionne said to his employees through a blog post: “I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China.”

A GM spokesperson piled on saying “We’ve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.”